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with sweetness,"'' redeeming us from our sins by his death and granting us adoption as children of glory.
Chapter 2 (56) WHY GOD MAN AND DEAD. And so he was made a mortal man, in order to vanquish the devil by dying. "For unless it was a man who vanquished the devil, then it would not seem to be by justice, but by violence, that man, who had freely subjected himself to the devil, would be taken from him; but if it was a man who vanquished him, then the devil lost man by manifest right. And in order that a man might vanquish him, it is necessary that God should be in him, in order to make him immune from sin. For if it had been only a man, or an angel in human form, he would easily have sinned, since it is well-known that each of these natures, on its own, had fallen."' And so the Son of God took on passible human form, in which he tasted even death;" by this, he opened heaven to us and redeemed us from slavery to the devil, that is, from sin (for sin is slavery to the devil), and from punishment.
Chapter 3 (57)
HOW AND FROM WHAT PUNISHMENT DID CHRIST REDEEM US BY HIS
DEATH. From what punishment? From the temporal and the eternal one: from the eternal one, by the abolition of our debt; from the temporal one, he will entirely free us in the future, when death, the very last enemy, will be destroyed.' For we still await the redemption of our body.' But according to our souls, we are already redeemed in part, not in total, from our fault, not from our punishment, nor entirely from fault: for we are not entirely redeemed from fault so that it no longer exists, but that it no longer dominates us.
Chapter 4 (58) HOW HE BORE OUR PUNISHMENT. Also, he is said to have borne our sins, that is, the punishment of our sins, in his body on the cross,' because, by the pain which he bore on the cross, all temporal punishment due for sin
Augustine, Sermo 130, n2; cf. also Sermo 263, nl (2).
'Ordinary gloss, on Heb. 2, 11.
*Heb. 2, 9.
HW Coreis. 26.
"Rom. 8, 23.
3Cf. Rom. 6, 6.
"1 Pt 2, 24.